I think the main reason for this behavior is that no one cares about winning or getting good placement. During your first 50 or 100 levels, exploring, looting and winning is fun but after a while these things means nothing. The only reason why you play pubs is to kill die repeat. I dont blame the players, me included, for playing pubs like this. We cant demand people to play the game in a way that they dont find the most fun, just to be "nice" towards players who dont wanna play like this. They need to either force it or create natural incentives to do it. And forcing is a bad idea, which leaves us to natural incentives. Banners, rewards, or an honor system are possible ways to do it, but how effective it would be is another question hrm.
if you just want to fight and die, there are game modes for that. theyre called gun-run and arenas. play mix-tape. dont bother queueing into BR because you dont WANT to play BR, you want to play gun-run.
Everyone has their own playstyles and we need to respect that.
When I play pubs with my two friends we sometimes play hot drop Harry's but we decide before the match. A lot of times we contest a drop with one other team and play to win from there.
When I play solo pubs a play a mix of what I am given and stick with my team the best I can, unless it is an absurdly hot drop with 4+ teams. Then I will break off and do my thing. We can only influence the players we are given when solo que-ing so much, and sometimes we have to play to their abilities and or style. If they are not so good fast we have to help them and slow down, if they are better sometimes we have to follow their lead. If they play not so smart sometimes one just has to bite the bullet and leave them.
Playing Ranked solo, contest a drop yes, hot drop no, wait out the respawn timer yes, play to win always, same when I am with my friends in premade playing ranked.
Playing solo one does not always like what one gets but trying to play as a team member is all we can do.
The best suggestion I can give to other solo Q-'ers that hate the solo Q experience is to find some plyers the can occasionally play with to alleviate that.
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